Sentence examples for it has been lean from inspiring English sources

It has been lean pickings since, with the salary cap and demands of the domestic league hamstringing attempts to break Ireland's dominance, but wing David Strettle feels no obligation to reverse the decline on nationality grounds.

NHS England denied on Sunday it had been "leaned on" to accept the £8bn figure, but indicated that it might press for that sum to be revisited and increased before the 2020 general election.

Gordon Brown said the government would "never be forgiven if we had let planes fly and there was a real danger to passengers' lives", and the air safety watchdog told the Guardian that it was "100% untrue" to suggest it had been leant on either by ministers or by airlines.

United Nations records show that if Gaza has been lean on aid from Turkey in recent years, it's not because Turkish relief donations have been blocked by the Israelis.

Teachers may be forgiven for drawing the conclusion that the independent STRB has been leant on.

I'm not a complicated man usually," he said, "but the government has been lean- ing pretty heavily on me of late".

Much has been leaned regarding transcriptional control of organogenesis, including development and growth of the heart [ 1] and brain [ 2].

"There have been lean years, but you stick with it.

The meat had been lean; rare in both senses of the word, it gave good text the next morning.

For the past couple of years, work prospects have been lean, the worker/soccer fans said.

"The previous decades had been lean in terms of creativity in costume jewelry," Mr. Top said.